Sr. Scrum Master

Description

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Are you ready to join an incredible team? This contract is critical to the government and allows team members to work independently and in a team environment to achieve success. If you are passionate, motivated, and want to be part of an organization that values your contributions, we want to hear from you. Apply today!

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The Leidos National Security Sector has an exciting opening for an experienced Scrum Master! An active TS/SCI Polygraph is required, up front.

You will join a high performing agile team using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support a large, complex, fast-paced technical program. Program execution follows DevOps best practices and employs robust development, test, and production environments. We are using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and test automation tools alongside a full suite of team collaboration tools. The program provides system engineering, development, test, integration, and operational support, and is focused on injecting new technology and adding advanced capabilities while continuing to support an on-going mission and operational system.

You will work on a large-scale software and hardware integration effort. You will be responsible for facilitating either one large, complex agile team, or several small agile teams as part of a larger Agile Release Train (ART) delivering value to the customer using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). You will help educate and coach the teams in Scrum, Scrumban, or Kanban to ensure that the agile processes are being followed. They will help remove impediments/roadblocks and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement. You will work with team members, with other Agile Scrum Masters, and with support personnel to ensure that the team's commitments at the Program Increment (PI) Planning are met. You will facilitate horizontal communication across team members to identify any impediments that may prevent team progress while working mitigation plans; be responsible for sensing, determining, and leading discussions when issues need to be analyzed or triaged, and for making improvements in determining and implementing improvements to processes; strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for facilitating self-organizing team(s) to ensure the team is making progress against Program Increment commitments.

• Protect the team from scope creep during execution of the PI.

• Remove impediments for the team and coordinate with the Release Train Engineers in implementing solutions.

• Help team members communicate, coordinate, and cooperate.

• Coach, support and enforce Scrum process and other process rules.

• Ensure that the team has a clear understanding of Definition of Done and how to meet it.

• Coordinate with other teams on the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and communicate status to management.

• Work with the Product Owner(s) to review and prioritize features.

• Lead and facilitate SAFe ceremonies to include Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews to include demos, Sprint Retrospectives, and PI Planning.

• Work with Product Owner(s) and System Engineers to develop User Stories to meet the Feature acceptance criteria.

• Maintain and generate information radiators for the teams.

• Collect and share team metrics with the team, determine when new metrics are needed, and develop improvements in metrics.

• Coach teams on Agile and Scrum principles with the goal of continuous improvement.

• Observe team dynamics, recognize strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coach the team as a whole to drive improvements in productivity.

• Create a fun sharing and learning environment, experiment with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training.

• Promote teamwork to achieve Sprint goals.

• Lead teams towards Agile maturity.

Basic Qualifications

• BA degree and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience. Additional relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.

• Must possess an active TS/SCI Polygraph clearance up front.

• Experience working as a Scrum Master for a software development or similar technical team.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or similar agile project management certification (PMI-ACP).

• Experience using agile project management tools (e.g. Jira, VersionOne, Rallye, IBM RTC).

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, and time management skills are a must.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, across diverse systems and groups.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with large software systems including hardware integration and test.

• Experience working with multi-disciplinary technical development teams.

• Experience using SAFe as the agile development methodology.

• Experience-affecting change in organizations working towards agile adoption.

• Experience applying test automation, test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment to achieve built-in quality by the team.

• Experience using Kanban as a means to improve flow on support teams.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.